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A wonderful answer to a question that was never asked.

Would you PLEASE.....PLEASE simply respond to my question, which was
posted here two days ago?

Mr ?,

All replies are answered "Mark Rich/MicroProse-Europe" therefore are not the
opinions of myself but the same line that is given via email, telephone and
fax to anyone who contacts Customer Services in the UK.  People are not
treated any different in their response wherever it may be sourced from.

UK support via myself will no longer be posting any more replies in this
newsgroup that has led a small number of people to send further insults and
accusations against me.  Instead all replies to future problems, that are
known to us left here, will be answered to the individial directly.

Further clarrification of the company line may be obtained from PR as you
wish, although the information
we supply people at all levels is the same and it is my understanding that
any "end-user" enquiries regarding our products will be forwarded back to CS
for replying to.

Regards,
Mark Rich/MicroProse-Europe

Fine. This is what i was seeking clarification on.

One would hope you are answering people directly as well as in a public forum
anyway, should they ask questions. As for the insults, it's quite apparent
that you have not realised to the level you have insulted participants of this
group.

If your comments are the public line of a company like Microprose than i guess
we can understand why the company is in such a financial quagmyre.

Who at anytime suggested i was interested in this manner as an end-user?
I am interested in MPS statements as a person who works in the industry.

Thanks for finally answering my question,

Z.

can you tell me then if tyre wear in gp2 depends on driving style
(e.g., can you go easy on the tyres) as opposed to f1pg where a fixed
amount of *** would be scratched off the tyres for every driven
lap?

Another thing I noticed and that I found quite strange: The other
day I downloaded and installed the 98 track pack from www.gp2.com.
I tried driving Canada, pole time was a low 1:18, I think, but then
I did not like the ORDER of the tracks, so I re-installed the original
tracks and copied the new Canada Track over the original one. Strangely
enough lap times went up into the 1:23 area, although the track is
basically the same... Can anyone shed some light on this situation?

Thanks in advance for your comments,

Uwe.

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Mark,

Thanks for answering the questions we had asked. If you've been mailed
personally with abusive comments I am sorry that there are people who feel
that is the way to act. However, your answer has left me and, I'm sure, others
worried about the future of MPS products as far as keeping them alive through
third-party addons.

I for one will be thinking carefully before picking any MPS product up again
as a company that does not appreciate it's customers is one I don't want to
support.

Rgds

Atlaz

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UK.

Hi Mark,

My question would be did you ever try an editor like GP2edit by Steven
Young.
If not you should really give it a try.
With this editor you do change the cars performance, if you want you can
have a Larrousse (1994 original version) win every race.

Richard Hasselt

"A lot of people think racing is about going fast. But it's not. It's about
going just slow enough to stay on the track."
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Atlaz schreef:

I have to agree here..

Richard Hasselt

"A lot of people think racing is about going fast. But it's not. It's about
going just slow enough to stay on the track."
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Ooops....got me! :o)

Some companies think these things are bad, somecomes (Eidos springs to mind)
believe they are a very good part of the software world. Whether u would buy
one or not comes down to the customer, i would see. If they are clearly not
contianing any copyright code... then there can be no issue.

Quite obviously, they may not be endorsed by MPS, but this does not exactly
make it a bad product either.

Z.

All,

We can end this NOW

How about MPS employee's identify themselves as valid MPS employee's by
answering the following unpublished questions then I will keep a list of valid
MPS email
addresson my track editing site. Any worthwhile support engineer should be
able to either know this or find this out.

I ask this becuase I've already had correspondence with one person
'pretending' to be Geoff and they got it wrong!

Q)  What piece of information about GP2 track format is stored just before
the JAM files

Q)  What is the maximum number of internal objects that can be stored in a
Track File

Q)  What is the code for identifying internal objects in F1GP and GP2
track files

Paul Hoad

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I eat my hat if Mr. Rich could answer that question (taking his "knowledge" of
GP2 into account). What people "out there" found out can be read at the track
manager page:(visit it!!)

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/7479/

I quote:

"?The time multiplier. I don't think really that something like a time
multiplier exists. It is only a try to describe this effect when you move a
track from position to position. If you take a track file and put it to all
available positions in GP2 (this means: you copy f1ct01.dat to all available
slots: f1ct01.dat .. f1ct16.dat) you have only one circuit in the game, but in
every slot. If you drive a fast lap on this track on every of the 16 ?positions,
you won't feel any difference between the slots. Well, its still the same track
why should make it a difference wether you drive it ?on slot 1or on slot 16. But
the times shown by the computer differ a lot.?If you meassure the real time you
need for a fast lap with a stop watch you will see, that the times are still the
same. Only the times shown by the computer are differnt. This is caused by the
"time multiplier".? "

Jo Helsen
Member of the Unofficial Public GP2 Support Team  <G>
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Try answering that one Mr. Rich and if you can we will all apologize!
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My final words on the topic are these:

If it wasn't for all the people out there doing these "hacks" and editors I
doubt that GP2 (or any other sim) would have lasted as long as it has. It
isn't perfect, far from it. These people, like Steve Young, if nothing else
have probably put money in Microprose pocket! Look at some of the pieces of
***software that are out there. Do they have the support out there like
N2 or GP2 has? NO! We the people give new life and extend the play of what
are other wise "unfinished" games.
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